According to an article published in the Johns Hopkins Student News-Letter, Professor Jeanne-Marie Jackson’s undergraduate course, Advanced Introduction to African Literature, has been named as one of the best undergraduate […]
News & Announcements Archive
New Publications from Professor Douglas Mao
Professor Douglas Mao has released his latest monograph, Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice, which has been published by the Princeton University Press. Professor Mao has also edited a […]
Professor Nadia Nurhussein’s Book Named MSA Book Prize
The Department of English is proud to announce Prof. Nadia’s recent book, Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America, has been named this year’s Modernist Studies Association’s Book Prize Winner. […]
Professor Nadia Nurhussein’s Latest Book Shortlisted For MSA Book Prize
We are proud to announce Professor Nadia Nurhussein’s most recent book, Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America, has been shortlisted to receive the Modernist Studies Association’s Book Prize. Each […]
Graduate Student Sarah Ross Named AGHI’s 2020 Humanities Blast Fellow
The Department of English is proud to announce Sarah Ross, a PhD Candidate in English at Johns Hopkins, has been named the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute 2020 Humanities Blast Fellow, […]
Graduate Student Jo Giardini Receives Yale LGBT Fellowship
The Department of English is proud to announce graduate student Jo Giardini has received a Yale LGBT Studies Research Fellowship for Spring 2021. This fellowship supports scholars from any field […]
Professor Nadia Nurhussein’s book on short list for MAAH Stone Book Award
Professor Nadia Nurhussein of the English Department has had her book, Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America, selected as a finalist in this year’s MAAH Stone Book Award. This […]
Statement from the English Department
The Johns Hopkins Department of English has watched with horror the continued state-sanctioned murder of Black Americans, and the violent repression of principled dissent that followed. We condemn the militarization […]
Blast Courses Offered by English Graduate Students
The Department of English is delighted to announce that five English graduate students have been chosen to help inaugurate a pilot program of humanities courses this summer. Sponsored by the […]
Professor Nadia Nurhussein named 2020 Finalist for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History
Named after lawyer, author, and women’s rights activist-intellectual Pauli Murray, this prize recognizes the best book concerning Black intellectual history (broadly conceived) published between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019 […]